Continuing his exploration of the organization of complexity and the science of design, this new edition of Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence adds a chapter that sorts out the current themes and tools -- chaos, adaptive systems, genetic algorithms -- for analyzing complexity and complex systems.There are updates throughout the book as well. These take into account important advances in cognitive psychology and the science of design while confirming and extending the book's basic thesis: that a physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for intelligent action. The chapter "Economic Reality" has also been revised to reflect a change in emphasis in Simon's thinking about the respective roles of organizations and markets in economic systems.

Die Informationslogistik wird zum Wettbewerbsfaktor fA1/4r Unternehmen. Die Versorgung von EntscheidungstrAgern mit integrierten Informationen ermAglicht effiziente und effektive Entscheidungsprozesse in Alignment mit den strategischen Zielen des Unternehmens. Dazu wird ein ganzheitlicher, bereichsA1/4bergreifender Ansatz benAtigt, der die inhArenten Synergiepotenziale einer Informationslogistik umfassend nutzt. Dieses Buch gibt erstmals einen Gesamteindruck A1/4ber den State of the Art und Entwicklungsrichtungen der integrierten Informationslogistik aus Managementsicht. Auf Grundlage des St. Galler Business Engineering-Frameworks werden aktuelle Herausforderungen und LAsungsansAtze der Informationslogistik ganzheitlich und konsistent betrachtet und Hinweise zur Gestaltung der Informationslogistik auf den Ebenen Strategie, Organisation und Informationssysteme gegeben. AusgewAhlte Schwerpunktthemen vertiefen fA1/4r die Umsetzung relevante Fragestellungen. SchlieAlich zeigen aktuelle Fallstudien konkrete RealisierungsmAglichkeiten in der unternehmerischen Praxis auf.

Fresh approach to engineering design, innovation challenges, and stereotypical thinking; provides alternative methods that come closer to the heart of the visual creative process.

Konrad Zuse baute die erste vollautomatische, programmgesteuerte und frei programmierte, in binArer Gleitpunktrechnung arbeitende Rechenanlage. Sie war 1941 betriebsfAhig. Mit anderen Worten: Konrad Zuse baute den ersten funktionsfAhigen Computer. In diesem Buch erzAhlt er die Geschichte seines Lebens, das wie kaum ein anderes mit der Geschichte der bedeutendsten technischen Entwicklung seines Jahrhunderts verbunden ist - einer Entwicklung, die mit der "Abneigung" des Berliner Bauingenieurstudenten Zuse gegen die statischen Rechnungen begonnen hat... "Von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite ist diese Autobiographie eine faszinierende LektA1/4re, weil aus jeder Zeile das persAnliche Erleben des Autors spricht. Diese Unmittelbarkeit macht Buch und Autor sympathisch." (ntz Nachrichtentechnische Zeitschrift) ..".FA1/4r entspannende und erholsame Stunden, informativ und allgemeinbildend, eigentlich genau das, was im Zusammenhang mit dem Thema Computer sehr oft gefragt und verlangt wird... Unser Tipp: Sehr empfehlenswert" (PASCAL)

This book introduces the geometry of 3-D vision, that is, the reconstruction of 3-D models of objects from a collection of 2-D images. It details the classic theory of two view geometry and shows that a more proper tool for studying the geometry of multiple views is the so-called rank consideration of the multiple view matrix. It also develops practical reconstruction algorithms and discusses possible extensions of the theory.

The dazzling new masterwork from the prophet of silicon valley. Jaron Lanier is the bestselling author of You Are Not a Gadget, the father of virtual reality, and one of the most influential thinkers of our time. For decades, Lanier has drawn on his expertise and experience as a computer scientist, musician, and digital media pioneer to predict the revolutionary ways in which technology has transformed our culture. Who Owns the Future? is a visionary reckoning with the effects network technologies have had on our economy. Lanier asserts that the rise of digital networks led our economy into recession and decimated the middle class. Now, as technology flattens more and more industries—from media to medicine to manufacturing—we are facing even greater challenges to employment and personal wealth. But there is an alternative to allowing technology to own our future. In this ambitious and deeply humane book, Lanier charts the path toward a new information economy that will stabilize the middle class and allow it to grow. It is time for ordinary people to be rewarded for what they do and share on the web. Insightful, original, and provocative, Who Owns the Future? is necessary reading for everyone who lives a part of their lives online.

This sweeping history of the development of professional, institutionalized intelligence examines the implications of the fall of the state monopoly on espionage today and beyond.
During the Cold War, only the alliances clustered around the two superpowers maintained viable intelligence endeavors, whereas a century ago, many states could aspire to be competitive at these dark arts. Today, larger states have lost their monopoly on intelligence skills and capabilities as technological and sociopolitical changes have made it possible for private organizations and even individuals to unearth secrets and influence global events.
Historian Michael Warner addresses the birth of professional intelligence in Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century and the subsequent rise of US intelligence during the Cold War. He brings this history up to the present day as intelligence agencies used the struggle against terrorism and the digital revolution to improve capabilities in the 2000s. Throughout, the book examines how states and other entities use intelligence to create, exploit, and protect secret advantages against others, and emphasizes how technological advancement and ideological competition drive intelligence, improving its techniques and creating a need for intelligence and counterintelligence activities to serve and protect policymakers and commanders.
The world changes intelligence and intelligence changes the world. This sweeping history of espionage and intelligence will be a welcomed by practitioners, students, and scholars of security studies, international affairs, and intelligence, as well as general audiences interested in the evolution of espionage and technology.

From cell phones to Web portals, advances in information and communications technology have thrust society into an information age that is far-reaching, fast-moving, increasingly complex, and yet essential to modern life. Now, renowned scholar and author David Luenberger has produced Information Science, a text that distills and explains the most important concepts and insights at the core of this ongoing revolution. The book represents the material used in a widely acclaimed course offered at Stanford University. Drawing concepts from each of the constituent subfields that collectively comprise information science, Luenberger builds his book around the five "E's" of information: Entropy, Economics, Encryption, Extraction, and Emission. Each area directly impacts modern information products, services, and technology--everything from word processors to digital cash, database systems to decision making, marketing strategy to spread spectrum communication. To study these principles is to learn how English text, music, and pictures can be compressed, how it is possible to construct a digital signature that cannot simply be copied, how beautiful photographs can be sent from distant planets with a tiny battery, how communication networks expand, and how producers of information products can make a profit under difficult market conditions. The book contains vivid examples, illustrations, exercises, and points of historic interest, all of which bring to life the analytic methods presented. It presents a unified approach to the field of information science. It emphasizes basic principles, and includes a wide range of examples and applications. It helps students develop important new skills, and suggests exercises with solutions in an instructor's manual.